Fundraising: Update and Closing

RNS Number : 4940S

Cora Gold Limited

10 March 2023

 

Cora Gold Limited / EPIC: CORA.L / Market: AIM / Sector: Mining

10 March 2023

Cora Gold Limited

('Cora' or 'the Company')

Fundraising: Update and Closing

Cora Gold Limited, the West African focused gold company, is pleased to provide an update to the announcement of 07 March 2023 regarding the closing of the fundraising, comprising both equity (the 'Equity Financing') and convertible loan notes (the 'Convertible Financing') (together the 'Fundraising'). The Company is now in receipt of all consideration amounts. The Company can, therefore, proceed to close the Fundraising, which will include admission to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange in respect of the new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company related to the Equity Financing.

The Fundraising for aggregate investments of US$19,803,169.26 comprises:

● 80,660,559 ordinary shares of no par value in the capital of the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price of US$0.0487 per share for total gross proceeds of US$3,928,169.26 in respect of the Equity Financing; and

● convertible loan notes convertible into Ordinary Shares for a total of US$15,875,000 in respect of the Convertible Financing.

The funds raised will be primarily used to commence development of the Company's flagship Sanankoro Gold Project in southern Mali following the reported Optimised Project Economics (announcement dated 21 November 2022), which highlighted strong economic fundamentals.

Admission and Total Voting Rights

The Company has conditionally raised through the Equity Financing a total of US$3,928,169.26, before expenses, through the proposed issue of 80,660,559 new Ordinary Shares (the 'New Shares') to certain existing shareholders and new investors.

The Fundraising is subject to Admission of the New Shares to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange ('Admission'). It is expected that Admission will become effective and dealing in the New Shares will commence on or around 13 March 2023. The New Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares.

Following Admission, the share capital of the Company will be comprised of 370,217,718 Ordinary Shares. The above figure of 370,217,718 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in Cora under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Market Abuse Regulation ('MAR') Disclosure

Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 ('MAR'), which is part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, until the release of this announcement.

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For further information, please visit http://www.coragold.com or contact:

Bert Monro Craig Banfield	Cora Gold Limited	[e-mail]
Christopher Raggett Charlie Beeson	finnCap Ltd (Nomad & Joint Broker)	[phone]
Andy Thacker James Pope	Turner Pope Investments (Joint Broker)	[phone]
Susie Geliher Charlotte Page Isabelle Morris	St Brides Partners (Financial PR)	[e-mail]

Notes

Cora is a West African gold developer with three principal de-risked project areas within two known gold belts in Mali and Senegal covering c.900 sq km. Led by a team with a proven track record in making multi-million ounce gold discoveries that have been developed into operating mines, its primary focus is on developing the Sanankoro Gold Project in the Yanfolila Gold Belt, southern Mali, into an open pit oxide mine. Based on a gold price of US$1,750/oz and a Maiden Probable Reserve of 422 koz at 1.3 g/t Au the project has strong economic fundamentals, including 52% IRR, US$234 million Free Cash Flow over life of mine and all-in sustaining costs of US$997/oz.

 

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